Books in the Cambridge Library Collection - Classics series

Galen (129-c. 199 CE) is the most famous physician of the Greco-Roman world whose writings have survived. This monumental 22-volume edition of his complete works by Karl Gottlob Kuhn (1754-1840), originally published in Leipzig between 1821 and 1833 and reissued here, has never yet been rivalled.

Galen (129-c. 199 CE) is the most famous physician of the Greco-Roman world whose writings have survived. This monumental 22-volume edition of his complete works by Karl Gottlob Kuhn (1754-1840), originally published in Leipzig between 1821 and 1833 and reissued here, has never yet been rivalled.

This two-volume 1889 work examines Byzantine history from 395 to 800. The account begins in the year in which, on the death of Theodosius I, the empire was divided into eastern and western parts. Volume 1 covers the period to the deaths of Belisarius and Justinian in 565.

Rudolf Westphal (1826-92) and August Rossbach (1823-98) were German classical scholars whose collaboration resulted in this multi-volume analysis of ancient Greek metre and music. Reissued here is the revised third edition published in four parts between 1885 and 1889.

This 1879 Latin dissertation was the first substantial work on Archimedes by the Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854-1928). The book features chapters on the Greek scientist's life, works and mathematics. A survey of the extant codices and the Greek text of Psammites (The Sand Reckoner) are also included.

John Thompson (c.1866-1936) was headmaster at The High School, Dublin (1908-27), a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and President of the Classical Association. This work, published in 1902, concentrates on Attic Greek, with an appendix on Homeric accidence. It remains a useful resource for the modern beginner student.

This six-volume translation of and commentary on the works of Pausanias, the second-century CE traveller and antiquarian, was published in 1898 by Sir James Frazer (1854-1941), best remembered today for his study of religion, The Golden Bough. Volume 2 is a commentary on Pausanias' description of Attica.

This controversial work by Sir James Frazer (1854-1941) is widely considered to be one of the most important early texts in the fields of psychology and anthropology. Applying the techniques of comparative ethnography to classical religion, the 1890 first edition discusses the place of human sacrifice in cultures worldwide.

Volume 1 of Shuckburgh's superb 1889 translation of Polybius' Histories contains Books 1 to 5, part of Book 6, and fragments of Books 7 to 9. Covering Greek and Egyptian society, the Punic Wars, Roman society and historical method, it remains a fascinating source on the second and third centuries BCE.

A talented philologist and biblical critic, John William Donaldson (1811-61) published this groundbreaking work in 1839. It is an attempt to apply the principles of comparative philology to ancient Greek, elucidating the grammar and syntax of the language by comparing it with actual or conjectural cognate languages.

The classical historian Karl Julius Beloch (1845-1929), educated at Palermo, Rome and Heidelberg, was famous for dealing critically with traditional historical material. In this controversial but influential work, published between 1912 and 1927, he questions conventional views on Greek history and opposes them with a more subjective approach.

In this two-volume work, published in 1892-7, Swiss philologist Robert von Planta (1864-1937) gives an exhaustive account of the history and development of Osco-Umbrian phonology and syntax. In Volume 1 the reader is guided through different types of Osco-Umbrian dialect and given an overview of their phonology.

John Bacon Sawrey Morritt (1771-1843), was a traveller, classical scholar and friend of Sir Walter Scott. This book, edited by G. E. Marindin (1841-1939) and first published in 1914, is a record of his Grand Tour of 1794-6, told through his letters home.

First published between 1776 and 1788, Gibbon's magnum opus is a magisterial account of the relationship between Roman imperialism and Christianity, spanning the period from the first century CE to the fall of Constantinople. Reissued here is J. B. Bury's authoritative seven-volume edition of 1896-1900.

Isaeus, an Attic orator of the fourth century BCE, made speeches which exemplify the intrigue of ancient inheritance disputes. First published in 1904, this learned edition of his surviving speeches, with a critical introduction and commentary by the classical scholar William Wyse (1860-1929), remains a standard work.

Headmaster of King Edward's School in Birmingham for fourteen years, Edwin Hamilton Gifford (1820-1905) published in 1905 this edition of the Euthydemus, Plato's most comical dialogue and an early treatise on logic. Intended for students, it illuminates the educational preoccupations of both early twentieth-century England and classical Athens.

One of the most widely studied texts of ancient philosophy, Plato's Laws is his last and longest dialogue, debating crucial questions on the subject of law-giving and education. This 1921 two-volume edition, prepared by Edwin Bourdieu England (1847-1936), includes a short introduction, the Greek text, analyses and extensive notes.

Published in 1897, this is the first volume (of two) of a collection of the surviving remains of Oscan, Umbrian and other minor Italic dialects, gleaned from epigraphy (such as Oscan inscriptions at Pompeii), the evidence of coins, glosses and references in later writers, and geographical and proper names.

Published in 1897, this two-volume set collects all the surviving remains of Oscan, Umbrian and other minor Italic dialects, gleaned from epigraphy, glosses in later writers, and names of people and places. The second volume contains a grammar of the dialects, appendices, indexes of names and a glossary.

This study of the history and development of Greek and Latin handwriting from earliest times to the end of the fifteenth century is copiously illustrated with photographic plates. Sir Edward Maunde Thompson (1840-1929) revised and expanded a shorter work of 1893 to produce this highly respected and illustrated edition in 1912.

Hermann Diels (1848-1922), professor of classics at Berlin, published this first edition of his authoritative collection of quotations from, and reports about, Presocratic philosophers in 1903. It was designed to enable students taking courses on the beginnings of Greek philosophy to engage with evidence that was fragmentary and unstandardised.

In this 1875 work the German classical scholar Johann Carl Otto Ribbeck (1827-98) gives his account of the emergence and development of Roman tragedy during the Republic, examining its Greek model. In seven parts, he outlines the most important authors and works, including Livius Andronicus and Quintus Ennius.

Published in 1921 and aimed at mathematicians and classicists, this rigorous two-volume work traces ancient Greek mathematics from Thales of Miletus to the achievements of the Alexandrian algebraists. Volume 1 includes an introduction and a section on numerical notation and arithmetical operations. The coverage begins with Thales and extends to Euclid.

Published in 1921 and aimed at mathematicians and classicists, this rigorous two-volume work traces ancient Greek mathematics from Thales of Miletus to the achievements of the Alexandrian algebraists. The coverage in Volume 2 begins with Aristarchus of Samos and Archimedes, extending to the algebra of Diophantus of Alexandria.

The most famous legal work of the ancient world was issued in the period 529-34 at the order of the emperor Justinian. This three-volume edition in Latin by Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) and his colleagues was first published in 1872-95. Volume 2 contains the Codex Justinianus.

Classical scholar Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824) investigates the original pronunciation of ancient Greek in this 1791 treatise. He uses evidence from ancient inscriptions, literature and coins - several examples of which are reproduced at the end of the text - in attempting to reconstruct the sound of various ancient dialects.

The controversy over the route taken by Hannibal in crossing the Alps in 218 BCE is long-running. This 1867 book considered all the possible routes over the Alps between France and Italy and formed part of the dispute between its author Robert Ellis and his scholarly rival William John Law.

The controversy over the route taken by Hannibal, the Carthaginian army and his famous elephants in their crossing of the Alps to attack Rome in 218 BCE is long-running, but a particular scholarly dispute arose with the publication of this book by classicist Robert Ellis in 1853.

A pioneer in establishing the study of geography in British universities, Henry Fanshawe Tozer (1829-1916) sought to share his deep appreciation of ancient authorities, particularly Strabo. This 1897 textbook traces the progress of geographical writing in Greek and Latin from Homeric times to the end of Rome's western empire.

Controversial for centuries, Hannibal's route over the Alps was the subject of an extended scholarly dispute between William John Law (1786-1869) and Robert Ellis (1820-85). This two-volume 1866 publication, Law's major contribution to the debate, examines several theories and the accounts of Polybius and Livy.